My research and teaching interests include international conflict, democratic peace and conflict behavior, and political behavior. In particular, my current research agenda focuses on changes in individual-level attitudes and political behavior as part of the conflict process linking salient issues in the international system to militarized conflict. My research has been published in journals like Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Social Science Quarterly.

A supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi gestures during a rally in Tehran on June 15, 2009 (AFP/Getty Images).